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Shrillary claims she didn’t know about planted question

We all know how honest those Clintons can be, so she must be telling the truth.  Oddly enough, not everyone is buying it:

I was at the biodiesel plant in Newton, Iowa, when Hillary Clinton was asked the now-famous question that had been set up by her staff. We had just finished a tour of the facility where Clinton nodded, as all candidates do, while officials spoke so that the cameramen wearing hard hats could film her standing among tubes and vats. (This is for B-roll that makes the candidate look engaged in local issues while the television announcer talks about her trip.) Then Clinton gave a nearly hour-long policy speech before taking questions from the audience. Nineteen-year-old Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff asked: “As a young person, I’m worried about the long-term effects of global warming. How does your plan combat climate change?”

Now we know, though, that it was Clinton’s staff that gave Gallo-Chasanoff that question to ask. Which makes the senator’s answer amusing. “It’s usually young people who ask me about global warming,” she said. Perhaps it’s usually young people because in the binder where a staffer showed Gallo-Chasanoff the question for her to ask, it was under the category marked “college student.”
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Did Clinton know what her staff was doing? She says she didn’t. Can that be so? She answered only a handful of questions at the event, and she somehow found her way to the person in the crowd who’d been put up to the task. Either her luck is smashing, or she’s fibbing. Any staffer who prints up audience questions and carries them in a neat little binder doesn’t then leave it to chance whether the candidate finds the one plant in a room of 300. Campaign aides insist that this moment was an act of pure happenstance. That still means that staffers feel it’s OK to freelance at confecting artifice. Shouldn’t someone have hesitated and thought, yikes, this is the kind of campaign where if I get caught doing this, I’m going to get fired? Even if it never winds up on the Jumbo-Tron in Times Square? 

The “smartest woman in the world” sure is looking very intellectually average these days, n’est-ce pas?

November 14, 2007 Posted by | Hillary | 3 Comments

Silky Pony to force employers into “paid leave”

The Breck Girl is showing his economic and constitutional ignorance yet again (I know, so what else is new?).  From the AP:

When it comes to helping parents take time off from work, Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards is raising the stakes.

The former North Carolina senator on Tuesday proposed spending $2 billion a year to help states create family leave programs that offer workers at least eight weeks of paid time off to care for a newborn or ill family member. The proposal is similar to those offered by his rivals, but Edwards would put up more money — New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s plan calls for $1 billion a year; Illinois Sen. Barack Obama proposes $1.5 billion.

Edwards also would set a national goal of eight weeks of paid leave for all by 2014.

“It’s really important for parents for families to be able to take this leave, to be able to do it and not lose their income, which is a huge drain on millions of families in this country,” he said at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon.
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Edwards also would require all businesses to offer their workers a minimum of seven paid sick days a year. He said the range of proposals complement his other health and education initiatives.

While he’s at it, why doesn’t Silky just go ahead and pass a law that says workers can’t be let go when companies will no longer be able to afford keeping them around due to such moronic laws? After all, if companies have to pay these extra costs without a return on their investment, they will have no choice but to let employees go.

If someone would be so kind as to point out to me and to Edwards where the Constitution authorizes the imperial federal government to force employers to pay their employees for not working, I would greatly appreciate it.  Thanks in advance.

November 14, 2007 Posted by | economic ignorance, John Edwards, socialism | 4 Comments

We’re winning in Iraq, and the MSM’s silence is proof

Excellent column by Rich Lowry:

Forget the briefings from generals, the intelligence evaluations and the Pentagon status reports. There is a handy indicator for whether the war in Iraq is going well — its relative absence from the front pages.

During the past month, the country’s top newspapers have splashed Iraq stories on Page A-1, but most of them have had to do with the scandal concerning the security contractor Blackwater and the impending (but yet to materialize) Turkish invasion of the Kurdish north. Reports on major trends in the war tend to be relegated to inside pages because — from the blows dealt to al-Qaeda, to the rise of Sunni security volunteers, to Muqtada al-Sadr’s cease-fire — they have been largely positive.

In Israel, there’s a law that bans reporting on sensitive national-security operations; you could be forgiven for thinking that the U.S. has a similar ban on any encouraging news from the hottest battlefront in the war on terror. The United States might be the only country in world history that reverse-propagandizes itself, magnifying its setbacks and ignoring its successes so that nothing can disturb what Sen. Joe Lieberman calls the “narrative of defeat.”

I love that term: “reverse-propaganda”!  I may just steal that…er, I mean, “use for evaluation purposes only”…for future use.  Continuing:

…Seemingly every day brings a new encouraging number. The latest is that rocket and mortar attacks in Iraq have fallen to their lowest level in nearly two years. The Left’s initial reaction to the surge’s success in reducing violence in Iraq was to declare Gen. David Petraeus a liar. Now, a new tack has become necessary — finding creative ways to deny credit to the surge. Democrat Rep. David Obey from Wisconsin says insurgents are simply “running out of people to kill.”

So between January and today everyone who could die in violence in Iraq perished? This is childish. It is true that the ethnic cleansing in Baghdad neighborhoods, once it is complete, creates a perverse kind of stability. But the reduction in violence has happened all around the country, in all-Sunni areas as well as in areas in parts of Baghdad that are still ethnic fault lines.

As Kagan writes, U.S. forces interposed themselves between warring factions in Baghdad, and on the outskirts of the city, attacked al-Qaeda strongholds. This is why American casualties went up earlier this year and now — with al-Qaeda on the run — are back down. As security has taken hold, the Sunnis have felt comfortable partnering with American forces to battle al-Qaeda.
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Bush repeatedly has said that there will be no ceremony on the deck of a battleship to mark victory over al-Qaeda; when it comes to any eventual victory over al-Qaeda in Iraq, not only will there be no ceremony, we’ll be lucky to get a headline.

Nope…no liberal media bias!

November 14, 2007 Posted by | defeatism, Iraq, media bias | Leave a Comment

Moonbatification of Newsweak continues

Not content with sitting on their since-discredited “flushed Koran” story, Newsweak has decided to hire the CEO of Moonbat, Inc., himself to cover the 2008 presidential election.  From Newsbusters:

What liberal bias?

Remember that big announcement I promised earlier? Well, it’s now official.

Newsweek press release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

MARKOS MOULITSAS, FOUNDER AND PUBLISHER OF DAILYKOS.COM,
TO BECOME NEWSWEEK CONTRIBUTOR FOR 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

New York — Markos Moulitsas, the founder and publisher of dailykos.com, will become a Newsweek contributor for the 2008 presidential campaign, offering occasional opinion pieces to the pages of the magazine and to Newsweek.com.

“We have always sought to represent a diversity of views in Newsweek, and we think Markos will be a great part of that tradition,” said Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham. “He will give our readers in print and online a unique perspective. As always, our job is to create the most energetic and illuminating magazine possible, and Markos will help us do that as the campaign unfolds.”

Yeah, there’s a lot of heads exploding in wingnutlandia today over this bit of news. But Newsweek is “balancing” me out with someone that should make heads on our side explode. Announcement on that name is still a couple of days off. 

Oh, the Kos kook will most certainly provide a “unique perspective”!  He’ll provide such perspectives as “screw those contractors in Iraq, they deserved to die and have their bodies dragged through the streets, and I feel nothing”, or “don’t give victims of Katrina a damned dime in assistance, since they voted for Bush…well, except for New Orleans, in which case we should all pitch in and help.”

Nope…no liberal media bias!

November 14, 2007 Posted by | media bias, moonbats | 5 Comments

Criminal alien (and terrorist sympathizer) working for FBI and CIA!

If we’re going to “fight them there so we won’t have to fight them here”, is it too much to ask not to put them on the federal payroll?  From Michelle Malkin:

The document of the day is a press release from the Justice Department announcing, “Former Employee of CIA and FBI Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy, Unauthorized Computer Access and Naturalization Fraud.” A Lebanese illegal alien was working for the Bush FBI and CIA, got into our computer systems, got access to info about her Lebanese relatives and the terrorist group Hezbollah, arranged a sham marriage (where have we seen that before), and nosed around in bribery and extortion conspiracy probes. Debbie Schlussel, Jihad Watch, and Allah have full coverage of Nada Nadim Prouty’s guilty plea and the appalling security lapses involved.

Debbie Schlussel points out: “The FBI and U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy (and before him, U.S. Attorneys Craig Morford and Jeffrey Collins) knew Prouty was a spy for Hezbollah back in 2003, but they allowed her to work for the FBI and CIA for over FOUR Years! They did not remove her from the job until the end of this past September–1.5 years after her brother-in-law was indicted for financing Hezbollah!!!!!!”

And Robert Spencer notes, “This story has everything: an illegal immigration angle, a Keystone Kops angle, an espionage angle, a moderate-Muslims-condemn-terror-or-do-they angle, and more. It would make a great movie. If this kind of thing doesn’t kill us first.”

The Bush administration’s cavalier attitude toward illegal aliens in its employ should be no surprise, of course. The Pentagon has allowed known illegal alien fraudsters to remain in the military as a matter of policy. And remember the illegal alien working in the White House who got his picture taken with the Cheneys?

When I broke that story in 2003, I ended my piece with this question for President Bush:

[I]f his own guardians can’t keep low-level, illegal border-crossing impostors out of the White House backyard, how in the world can we count on his administration to keep far more sophisticated, illegal alien evildoers…out of ours?

Answer: We can’t.

How many other illegal aliens and jihadi sympathizers are working in sensitive positions in the shamnesty-promoting Bush administration?

Could the crony-riddled DHS even tell us if they tried? 

Undermining American security and working with terrorists must be one of those “jobs that Americans won’t do” that Jorgé W. Bush was telling us about.

November 14, 2007 Posted by | corruption, illegal immigration, religion of peace | 3 Comments

CBS News writers to strike?

Maybe so.  If they do, I suppose CBS News could always get Bill Burkett to write their news again, just like he did in September 2004.

November 14, 2007 Posted by | media bias | 3 Comments

Sen. Grahamnesty gets a primary challenge

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), with palms greased by agricultural and industrial lobbies, has spent the better part of the last year or two being a shill for amnesty for criminal aliens.  He even said that those who opposed amnesty were “bigots” who needed to be told to “shut up”!  Well, words mean things, Senator (unless you’re Shrillary, but I digress).

Enter Buddy Witherspoon:

Buddy Witherspoon, a long-time South Carolina committeeman to the Republican National Committee, will be announcing this week that he will challenge Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in the GOP primary, according to a source familiar with his intentions.

Witherspoon, an orthodontist, is known as an arch-conservative on social and cultural issues, and plans to run a campaign centered on fighting illegal immigration. 

Granted, Witherspoon is a long shot, since Grahamnesty does have quite the war chest and the power of incumbency.  But it will be nice to see how Grahamnesty handles the questions sure to come from Witherspoon.

November 14, 2007 Posted by | illegal immigration | Leave a Comment

Spitzer kills his own “driver’s license for criminal aliens” plan

NY’s bumbling Democrat governor Elliot Spitzer thought that he could actually get away with issuing driver’s licenses to criminal aliens.  After all, he had won the guv’s office with 70% of the popular vote, in a deeply blue state.

However, he saw that about 70% of New Yorkers were opposed to his plan, and he watched his approval rating drop down to 41% (with only 25% saying they’d re-elect him).  As luck would have it, he changed his mind.  From the AP:

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has decided to abandon a plan to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, officials familiar with the decision told The Associated Press Tuesday night…

The governor’s office signaled to New York lawmakers Tuesday that Spitzer will say at the meeting that he is shelving the plan and that immigration is a federal issue to be handled by Washington, according to congressional aides who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because no formal announcement had been made.

Last month, Spitzer sought to salvage the license effort by striking a deal with the Department of Homeland Security to create three distinct types of state driver’s licenses: one “enhanced” that will be as secure as a passport; a second-tier license good for boarding airplanes; and a third marked not valid for federal purposes that would be available to illegal immigrants and others… 

How come immigration was not a federal issue until after the electorate revolted?

I wonder if this will affect Democrats who insist on amnesty for criminal aliens.  Also, since Her Highness supported Spitzer’s plan (before she didn’t, before she did again), I wonder if she’ll go back to supporting his new plan of no licenses.

November 14, 2007 Posted by | illegal immigration | 1 Comment

   

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